Virtue must be thrown off tis a coarse garment
- DMI number:
- 39383
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Virtue must be thrown off tis a coarse garment
- Last Line:
- When they are not the last and worst of men
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- High society / the court
- First Line:
- But courtiers are to be accounted good
- Last Line:
- When they are not the last and worst of men
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Virtue must be thrown off tis a coarse garment
- Last Line:
- Too heavy for the sunshine of a court
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Spanish Friar or the Double Discovery.
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